SMB problem: mounting a share on gutsy

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Dec 11 14:12:35 UTC 2007


David McGlone wrote:

> On Monday 10 December 2007 8:36:48 am Derek Broughton wrote:

>> I think it's something wrong with SMB (not Samba).  My Windows desktop
>> rarely connects to all the SMB shares (on other Windows boxes) it's
>> supposed to autoconnect to, either.  I can manually connect to them, but
>> not automatically.
> 
> I just don't understand. All the advise I gave him isn't working for some
> reason. It has me wondering, because the same setup works just fine for
> me. I connect to all my shares on boot by using the "auto" option in
> fstab. For some reason it doesn't work for him. Unless of course I have
> missed something and not fully understood his problem.

Well, I don't understand either, but I just find the same sorts of problems
using SMB Windows -> Windows as I do with Samba in either direction between
Windows & Linux.
-- 
derek





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